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    The surname Kifer

    A surname, carried by 1,597 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex K160

    Kifer: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kifer #17,596, 1,597 people Kifer: #17,596 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kifer #17,596, 1,597 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kifer is more common than 89.2% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,597 people named Kifer in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. That is down 5.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,683.

    #17,596
    rank among US surnames
    1,597
    people in 2010
    0.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    -5.1%
    change since 2000 (was #15,870)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #17,596McGeehan1,597193,328
    #17,605Stahlman1,596193,450

    Who is named Kifer

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    94% of people named Kifer identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as two or more races and 1.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.3%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Kifer

    Kifer has the Soundex code K160, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K160.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kifer?
    1,597 people in the United States had the surname Kifer in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 193,328 Americans. It ranked 17,596th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kifer?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kifer identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Kifer getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,683 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,597 in 2010, down 5.1%.